Can be constructed with office essentials

I was each week leading up to Valentines day, to create a series of posts with really simple, quick ideas for Valentines that anyone could make.  Last week, because I felt so awful I missed it, so I will try to do two this week.

Today's one is great if you suddenly have to make a last minute card and have no resources! You could make this in your office last minute as all the requirements can be found in your common stationery cupboad!  It is also quite a blokey card- great for the non-soppy fan of 80's computer graphics.
 All you need is:

• Hole punch
• White and coloured paper. In my first picture, you can see a brochure made of blue paper which I could easily cut up as well as the white paper and red offcuts- you only need a very little bit- A5 size or round the edge of junkmail will do!
• SMALL Pritt stick/White glue stick*
• Black card blank (or colour of your choice) 

I probably don't need to give instructions as this one is so easy! But anyway:
1.  Lay your card blank out flat (things will tip if you keep it folded)
2. Punch around.... [frantically scrutinizes own picture]...58 white circles with your trusty hole punch (I had a cute mini one-hole one but you can use the regular kind)and 52 coloured circles. (this will also depend on how you want to create your heart)
3. Start laying out the top and corner of your heart with the red/coloured circles, filling in the gaps with white until you have a heart surrounded by a square of white circles. Stick them close together..  You can leave it like this or surround with a coloured border round the edges.
4.  When happy with the formation, stick them down by applying glue to each dot. Alternatively, if lazy or time is short, just run the gluestick along the paper before you start and lay dots on top of it in a formation. Smooth down.
5.  Feel free to add a greeting.  I might well do this when mine are actually stuck down*.
Ta dah!


And there you have it- a simple Valentines- not too girly!


* Confession time here: I laid out all the of the circles and took picture as I went along.  When I lifted the glue-stick to glue them down, I discovered my pritt stick had dried up (and it was too cold to go into the shed for alternative adhesive) but I am out for the next 4 evenings and was keen to get this up, so I have had to leave this on the windowsill to be stuck down. Mean husband tried to blow on it!

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